September Hatch-A-Long!

[dutchbunny83]

Lunar-- I LOVE your avatar pic, I will have to try that this spring!

 

[Kyochan]

Don't know if it's to late to get in on this but I just set 6 last night in my little homemade experimental incubator. Not sure how this is going to go but we shall see! So excited!!

 

[familypendragon]

I'm so sorry. 
You are much better at recognizing who to help than I am.  I have improved.  My odds are much better.  How do you know?  The hardest for me is recognizing malpositioned chicks.  I can't tell unless I open the shell and the membrane but in  most cases that would be too much help if the chick isn't in the wrong place.  

Yeah, I have no idea... I seem to get a "feeling" about certain eggs. I don't know what it is. Something about the timing, the shape of the shadow in the shell, how the egg feels, but it is certainly far from scientific. I was wrong about Treasure! I saw no internal pip and no movement on day 21 after the bator was cold and assumed she was dead. When I first opened the shell up I assumed I was doing an eggtopsy. One thing I had noted about her egg before hand was that the shape of the shadow inside the air cell was very confusing - just didn't seem right. Once I opened it up I saw why. Generally speaking if they were all set together and don't start pipping around the same time I start to assume something is wrong (because for me it has been true and I have had so many malpositions). If the eggs are about the same size they should be running out of air around the same time. I think unconsciously I give a bout 12 hours from the first pipper - then any that haven't pipped get quickly candled to check for an internal pip/movement and I go from there. I know if I don't at least provide an external pip to a stuck chick then she will almost certainly die. If I do that then I can give her theoretically up to 3 days to sit there and she should be fine as long as she is getting air. I don't have any rules but in hindsight it seems like that is what I do, LOL!

I don't think my curly toed chick is going to make it - and that wasn't my assisted one :/ I have her in her 6th attempt at boots today. Her toes are so badly curled and her ankle roll so that she can't walk. So she can;t get to food and water. I am hand feeding/watering but she isn't taking much. Today I used wire and needle nose pliers and constructed forms for her tiny feet and used tape to keep them on. They are the first ones to keep her toes straight - but she still can't walk in them. She is getting skinny I keep her sitting in a roll of duct tape so she can balance against it and hopefully strengthen her legs and toes in the right shape. I am not hopeful though. I read it could be a b12 deficiency so I am giving her a b12 drop each day too.

 

[DeannaA]

thanks guys...the vet rx is for all that ails, it's herbal I believe.... I thought I heard what could be wheezing so I thought I'd add that to the mixture I concocted. DeannaA what did you use to suspend the chicklet you put in a sling?? I'm thinking if I make a sling so the baby has to put it's weight on it's good leg it'll get the idea to balance on it, I was thinking maybe a stick across the top of the bin they're in to suspend the sling??

I used a knee high stocking. Cut it in half, split down the middle stopped 2 " from the bottom.

 

[Heidisgran]

well I did it! I've never done it before never thought I would or could but my little polish was getting sicker and she could no longer stand up then she start throwing up!
I really had very little hope for the crippled baby it also had pain in the gimpy leg which was short and reddish the other chicks pecked at it and made it cry...it was just sleeping all the time...

I just put them in together after I kissed them each and asked the lord to help me!

I didn't tell anyone except you all...when anyone here asks me I'll just tell them they passed!

 

[Heidisgran]

well I did it! I've never done it before never thought I would or could but my little polish was getting sicker and she could no longer stand up then she start throwing up!
I really had very little hope for the crippled baby it also had pain in the gimpy leg which was short and reddish the other chicks pecked at it and made it cry...it was just sleeping all the time...

I just put them in together after I kissed them each and asked the lord to help me!

I didn't tell anyone except you all...when anyone here asks me I'll just tell them they passed!

I didn't even open the margarine tub to look after...with in seconds I heard nothing more!

 

[chickydee64]

I didn't even open the margarine tub to look after...with in seconds I heard nothing more!

It was an act of love.......................thinking more about them than yourself...................
Really sorry this happened to you....................

 

[chickydee64]

Don't know if it's to late to get in on this but I just set 6 last night in my little homemade experimental incubator. Not sure how this is going to go but we shall see! So excited!!

You are WELCOME...............

No time limit...............
Keep us posted on your progress if time permits.............................We all just learn from each other...........

 

[Kyochan]

You are WELCOME...............

No time limit...............
Keep us posted on your progress if time permits.............................We all just learn from each other...........

Haha. Thanks for the welcome! And I will. I'm a nervous nelly right now. My family keeps shaking their heads when I get up every 20 or so minutes to check the temp and humidity. They just don't understand my need for charting it all out so I can learn from any mistakes I make lol or they understand and are praying it fails so I won't hatch dozens more!

 

[Heidisgran]

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in honesty I guess it happen to them! I am haunted by their precious eyes! you know what I'll do for myself...I'll spend the evening sitting in back watching the rest of the flock...the babies of various ages in their coop and playpen and the grown ups running to me for treats...and some of the most humorous of them all my month old ducks swimming in their now too small feed pan we use as a pond!!
I've got a bucket full of health babies born Friday and Saturday and more due this next week...looking forward to my first attempt and turkeys around the 19th!

thank the Lord for this web site...we can be here for the joys and the sorrows...thanks for your support!